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[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 1 points 16 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal

Sounds like your terrified of duodecimals. Base 12 number systems are better at somethings than base 10 and a number of mathematicians believe it's a superior number system all round and easier to teach to young people. And metric would work equally well in theory with either base 10 or base 12.